Reply #121: Feb/March 2001 [View All]

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I found the link to the Top Ten Conservative Idiots at Buzzflash and I was hooked on DU immediately.
I have checked in here on a continuous daily basis with very few misses.

Back then, there was a special "Underground" that was only open to "special" DU members.
You had to apply for admission.
I was sure that plans to overthrow the illegal Bush government were being discussed in "The Underground", and was impatient for admission. I bombarded Elad with E-Mails begging to join "The Underground" so I could begin plotting the revolution.
I was a little disappointed to find that it was just the early version of "The Lounge".

Du was more fun in the early days. Threads would stay on the Front Page for days, and people had time to compose posts. Today, DU is more like a "chat room" where instant snark trumps intelligence and well constructed arguments.
I still love it, but am nostalgic for the slower, more thoughtful pace.

I remember the first time DU was mentioned by a major media figure.
That was Rush Limbaugh, and he attacked DU on his radio show. I remember thinking that on that day DU graduated from being just a club to a national political force.

If you move your cursor over the icon that represents someone's profile in the upper left corner of a post, a 6 digit number appears on the lower bar of the window. I believe that the lower that number, the longer that user has been at DU.
Mine is 102201.


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